- I think every learner is diverse in the fact that everyone has strengths in different areas and learn information in different ways. No two students are people learn or act the same way, so for that reason I believe that everyone is a diverse learner.
what types of support do diverse learners need to participate fully in the learning community?
- One support that I think diverse learners need is the support of teachers and other students, to be aids for the student in the struggling subject.
- Also, I think a learning environment that supports each other and helps others succeed and not bring down people because of their struggles.
- scaffolding, Bruner talks about how it is a way to help students "develop new skills, concepts, or levels of understanding" (Bruner). This helps provide the students knowledge and confidence in a struggling area.
to what extent is good teaching for ELLs good teaching for everyone?
- I think teaching for ELLs is good teaching for everyone, you cannot assume that ELL students have the same background and experiences just because they speak the same first language. There can be totally different experience for each student and that is what teachers need to remember for all their students.
- I also think that by not focusing on the weakens of the student, for example not being able to speak well in english but focusing on the student learning the content is what is important. The language will come but making sure students do not fall behind just because of one struggle they are having is what is important.
what are ways to learn about students from multiple perspectives?
- Seeing how students interact with other students
- seeing how students interact with their parents
- provide different opportunities for students to show what they know (book reports, papers, projects, plays, reading to the class)
- modifying different tests so that students struggles do not interfere with the test if there struggles are not the thing being tested.
- If a students struggles with reading but is taking a science test then have the test read to the student.
- A couple of things I found interesting while reading the book
- "it requires more linguistic skills to use language for academic purposes than it does to use it in everyday conversation
- this is why an ELLs student can appear to be a strong english learner when listening to the student speak to their friends however academic is a lot more difficult to master
Tompkins, Chapter 1
- "the constructivist theory describes students as active and engaged learners who construct their own knowledge".
- by allowing students to be engaged in their own learning and involve their previous knowledge in what they are currently learning and to connect the new information to previously learned knowledge.
- teaching students how to read and write online has become a priority so that they can become fully literate in today's digital world
- I do not agree with this section of the text, I do not think time should be spent in class to teach students how to navigate through the internet and read different types of information. I feel like computer class is the time for this, I understand helping the students understand that different resources on the internet have different strengths of reliability and I believe in students learning how to look up information on the internet. But, to take time out of the day to teach students how to read articles on the computer. I personally do not see the difference between reading a book that you are holding or reading a book on the computer.
Assessing English -Language Learners in Mainstream Classrooms, Susan Davis Lenski
- "teachers of ELLs should conduct multiple forms of evaluation, using a variety of authentic assessment tools to fairly assess the placement and progress of their students and to plan instruction
- this way the teacher develops a better understanding on what the students strengths and weakness are and what areas of instruction that need to be modified.
- If a students is evaluated in different ways it is less likely for the information to be miss evaluated because of the test or students difficulty to understand the test.
Supporting underachieving readers in the elementary classroom, Hillary Rae
- I totally agree with involving other teachers, parents, older students to provide more help and time to students that are struggling. I feel that reading is very important in our education since our school systems strongly use reading for learning different information.
- I also agree providing students with different resources and see if there is a book on tap that the student can read along with, providing options to students so that it is not to frustrating for them and that they are able to read books that interest them.
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